Ok, let’s say that you wake up tomorrow and find yourself in a different room, on a foreign bed, and in a strange place.
A person then peeks into your room and starts to talk to you.
From what you gathered throughout the conversation, the year is really 9,237…
Not only that, but you were also merely a pawn in an experiment, to see how humans would react in this kind of situation/society/whatever etc.
Your entire life was a lie; it was a simulation. You realize you’re not in your familiar body. Your new(real) body is the exact opposite of your previous one. Hell, you aren’t even the same sex!
Anyway, this particular experiment involved religion.
This person tells you that your religion/belief is wrong.
Also, from what you gather, your least liked religion/belief is TRUE! (Ex; you are a Xian who HATES scientology)
It is also completely proven.
How would you react in such a situation?
Realize, you are answering this question without silliness, sarcasm, or ‘ZOMG MINE IS RIGHT!!!1
2006-12-11 10:07:38 · 22 answers · asked by Mellorine~ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
go back to sleep.
2006-12-11 10:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Al-Gore 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
After my initial responses of distress, anger, denial, etc, I'd think it cool, funny, and ironic. You see, I've always wanted to do something like that (turning someone's life into a social psych experiment), and It would be hilarious if mine was one. Then I'd be excited, because if scientology was real, then aliens would be, too. I'd also be very interested in seeing things from the perspective of a black male. And it would be awsome not to get burned as badly in the Sun. It would be odd to have white frecles, though.
2006-12-11 18:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by adrienne06052 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not unlike what it was like waking up from a long period in a coma. I had lived a whole life while under. I traveled in time and space, visited places I always wanted to visit, including riding on the orient express. It all seemed very real to me, and still does, now eight years later.
2006-12-11 18:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, the scenario would be waking up to discover that one of the monotheistic religious constructs were correct.
Being Wiccan, I would be totally devastated by this discovery. It would mean that my gender is in fact second class and that my only purpose in life is to be of service to the male gender. I could be sold into slavery (Leviticus) and I would be valued equally to an ox (Genesis). My relationship with the Gods would no longer exist and frankly, I think I might consider taking my own life given the horrific realization that there is no Divine Feminine.
Thankfully - really - "thankfully!" - this is not the case!
2006-12-11 18:16:18 · answer #4 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Firstly protest against the ethical violations of this experiment. If I'm in a different body in a different time and just been stripped of my personal belief system, am I still the same person?
Leave the chamber and open up a historical foundation and archive and collect evidence and relics from a time when mutliple points of view about religion existed to preserve our right to believe in different things or differ in matters of oppinion.
2006-12-11 18:15:36 · answer #5 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Can't really say how I would react. As everybody I have hope and have faith that the way I believe is correct. If some how this did happen I would hope that I could accept the truth and go on about my life in the right direction.
2006-12-11 18:14:40 · answer #6 · answered by messed up car 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd be more upset about the loss of what I thought was my friends and family than with anything else. As I am an atheist, I'd find it interesting that a god was proven, and would love to learn more about that, but I don't think it'd be my top concern--I'd be hysterical over having to cope with no Mom, Dad, sister, puppy, etc. Oh, and having to learn to pee standing up.
2006-12-11 18:14:15 · answer #7 · answered by N 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love Jesus, and I would continue to love him, even if it was proven that he didnt exist, there would be a place in my mind that would feel bad about leaving all i thought was true. Jesus has been so much a part of my life so far, I would at least like to think that he still exists.
2006-12-11 18:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by Your hero until you meet Jesus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(FWIW, Goddess-worshipping Pagan here)
You mean after going through the stunned jaw-dropping
"UUUUHHHHHH...can you explain that...slowly", a few dozen times, and finally getting my confused brain to realize....
....that the Westboro Baptist Church/Fred Phelps lunatic fringers were RIGHT???
Think the first impulse would be to kill myself....that sort of Deity would NEVER accept and love me anyway, so any road, I'm a goner....and maybe, MAYBE....there's another kind of afterlife, or Hell's not as bad as it's pictured.....
Second impulse: get a few thousand reality checks, and HOPE frantically that I'm hallucinating or have gone utterly off the wall....
2006-12-11 18:17:55 · answer #9 · answered by samiracat 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is a difficult question.
It requires quite a deep philosophical analysis to answer it.
Suprageometricity - Reality is not reducible to a simulation
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholiccommunity/message/86535
Topics in Suprageometricity
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholiccommunity/message/86536
Why a holodeck it not possible2
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholiccommunity/message/50608
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2006-12-11 18:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
be wanting to talk to the man in charge asap or I'd be raising some serious questions about what was put in my food and drink
2006-12-11 18:12:09 · answer #11 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋